| Record Number |
852626 |
| Title |
Jarhead [videorecording]. |
| Edition |
Widescreen version. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Australia] : Universal Pictures (Australasia) [distributor], c2006. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (approx. 118 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
"8242539"--Case-slip. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. |
| Bonus features: feature commentary with director Sam Mendes, 11 deleted scenes with commentary, news interviews in full with commentary by Sam Mendes. |
| Based on the book by Anthony Swofford. |
| Bonus features: Swoff's fantasies -- News interviews -- Deleted scenes -- Feature commentary with director Sam Mendes -- Feature commentary with screenwriter William Broyles. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Sam Mendes ; produced by Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick ; screenplay, William D. Broyles, Jr. |
| Performer note |
Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Lucas Black, Dennis Haysbert . |
| Summary Note |
Jarhead is an irreverent and edgy look at modern warfare from a soldier's point of view. The film follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a naive young recruit and his platoon mates from the intensity and camaraderie of boot camp to being shipped to a lonely outpost in a surreal desert setting. |
| Target audience note |
Rated: MA 15+ |
| Language note |
In English and Hungarian. Subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish. |
| Subject |
Soldiers -- United States -- Drama |
| Marines -- United States -- Drama |
| Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Drama |
| Feature films. |
| War films. |
| Added Author |
Swofford, Anthony |
| Gyllenhaal, Jake, 1980- |
| Mendes, Sam |
| Foxx, Jamie |
| Sarsgaard, Peter |
| Fisher, Lucy |
| Wick, Douglas |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F JARH |
